Right in our SWFL backyard is an amazing farm that has global outreach in helping countries learn innovative ways to grow and sustain crops. A gem and must see.

Nice little nursery. Didnt have a chance to see the farm, its only by guided tour a couple of times per day. They do amazing work and its very educational with ideas you can apply to your own garden of food forest.

Such a great time! Pat was or Docent for our tour today and he was so knowledgeable. He knew the answer to every single question we asked of him. The work they are doing at Echo is truly inspiring. They are reaching people all over the world and teaching them how to grow their own food. I cannot wait to go back for the other tour.

I visited just to purchase plants. Great place to find Moringa trees. Staff was very helpful!

Great place to get honest info and learn ways to solve issues. Go early during summer and take water. Most staff are volunteers and really care about your comfort and questions.

Loved the tour, recommend to everyone.

Awesome guided tour! Very informative & fun!

Huge collection of plants and trees! Good tour and very informative. Would visit again when back in Florida.

ECHO is THE place to go if you enjoy gardening. Their mission to feed the world by targeted horticulture solutions is truly inspiring! I have visited the farm many times over the 30 plus years I have lived here. Their staff, volunteers and interns are friendly and extremely knowledgeable. My wife has planted an herb garden every year and my mango, avocado, and mulberry trees are all from the ECHO nursery. Their signature event is Farm Day and is one of the best times to visit to tour, taste test, and attend educational seminars. Most of what I have learned about horticulture in Florida I credit to my visits to ECHO. Take the time to visit if you are in the area, you will be glad you did!

Fun, informative 90 minute Farm Tour and met great people helping solve world hunger and poverty. Very good 10 minute intro video.Also took the 90 minute Appropriate Technology Tour which showed us how people are taught to make what they need from what they can get! Clean and pump water, cook food with less wood, even build houses using bamboo!Knowledgeable staff and volunteers on hand to answer questions.Well stocked, organized and inexpensive gift shop with interesting finds from all over the world supporting fair trade with many impoverished people. Very well stocked tropical nursery quality plants, most are edible!Tip: Bring a lunch and eat at the picnic tables under the bamboo shade.Also lots to see without the docent led tour!Supporting this place is a great way to donate to help others in need!

I go and take the tours at Echo about every 3 or 4 years as well as buy my seeds and plants from the nursey regularly. I LOVE their mission and the work they do to educate small scale farmers in 3rd world countries and encourage sustainability. I truly believe they do Gods work. I encourage anyone with the faintest interest to take some time to tour and learn about what they do.

Amazing tour for those interested in sustainable farming and the research that makes it possible. The organization takes it back to the beginning, before commercial products and practices got in the way. Great mission of eliminating hunger and malnutrition through the love of Jesus.

ECHO offers an extensive tour showing how their efforts are working to help feed the needy and malnourished around the world. We took away many sustainable living techniques that we can implement at our home.

Charlie is a wonderful help, and there is an amazing selection of books for Florida growing. Great place to visit!

Echo does a lot of good work for subsistence farmers in third world countries. The tour explains their techniques and is interesting and informative. They also have a nice gift shop with unusual items and foods.

Good tour, informative, you can buy seeds also.

Loved the tour of all the different growing regions and farming techniques. Guide was very knowledgeable.

Absolutely A MUST GO! ! GREAT Job EVERYONE! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! COUNT ME IN! ;)

Great place to learn about different ways to manage growing concerns. Learn to feed your family. Praise the Lord!

Excellent place to buy edible tropical varieties of plants. The staff is fantastic very helpful and willing to educate Ginni and Charlie are outstanding!

Great place to see different vegetation from around the world.

Echo G F. is truly a veggie mission of love to feed starving nations by sharing seeds.At home I have an immigrant Palm from P. R.See my orphant coconut plant, I found it 10 yrs. ago in Florida, P. R., approved by customs to bring to Florida, USA and now it has a home in Paradise, Cape Coral FL. USA

Love it. They have so much information and are very helpful.

Echo is a fantastic place. A nonprofit organization dedicated to growing food. Their charitable work takes them all over the world. Have been a dedicated customer since 1999. The staff is friendly and very knowledgeable. You can buy seeds and other products on their website as well as at their nursery and store.

This place is really awesome. The staff is friendly, knowledge and passionate. You will definitely learn and experience incredible things here. Great informative classes you will enjoy! Be safe and wear a mask, thank you.

We took the tour with Doug this morning and enjoyed learning about plants and natural fertilizers.

Awesome place to learn about sustainability and trying to combat world hunger!

Wonderful place its a must come for gardeners.

The management is friendly and everybody was wearing mask good place

The staff is knowledgeable and very friendly... great local experience and learning opportunity!

I took a tour here with my class at FGCU, it was very neat seeing and learning about the plants and animals. I love that ECHO is trying to help people around the world to get the food they need to survive. They offer knowledge on what to grow and how to grow. I think my favorite part was seeing some baby goats. They were so cute!

Great place to bring the family and a wonderful organisation. Helping reduce poverty in the world. I really like the innovations they come up with that are applied all over the world. Keep up the great work!

Great plant nursery with a very educational tour!

ECHO is such a unique place with such an amazing mission. They have a very friendly, dedicated staff that are very knowledgeable. It is a great place to volunteer because there are a range of important tasks. It is also a great place to tour because of the diversity of the plants and innovations they have.

If I could give them more stars I would. Incredibly friendly and helpful. I had just purchased a home and wanted to plant some fruit trees but knew nothing about it. They helped me pick exactly what would be best for what I was looking for. All their plants are geared towards success is SW Florida so thats great. Charlie is so knowledgeable and willing to take the time to inform you of the process to set you up for success. Cant say enough good things. Ive already been 3 times and will be planning to go back again to keep expanding the variety.

What a great place!

Eye opening place! Exactly what missions should be.

A must visit if self-sufficiency in farming holds your interest. Wonderful project, may God grant you success!

Just a really nice fantastic nursery with reasonable prices for exotic items!! My son and friends had a wonderful time looking at all the top notch cared for plants and trees!! Thanks!! We will come and visit again and hopefully due the tour.

Echo is a great place to visit and a great charity. It is worth it to do each of the tours once if you can. They also have a great gift shop, which is not something I say often. Overall it is a very enjoyable experience. I really hope they change the world.

Interesting tour but WAY TOO LONG

We were so excited since learning of Eco Farm. We told family & friends all about how excited we were to SEE this place. We finally were able to travel to Ft Meyers for a visit, a 5 hour drive. I called for information, I felt the woman was rude, at best she was short with me, she had no interest in me, she said go to the website. Which I had already done. We were crushed. We had hope to do a tour then spend a week volunteering. That wont be happening. We dont care to spend our time and money to be treated badly.

I have been driving over 100 miles to Echo Nursery for the past 5 years because they had the best of everything. I am still refraining from going back after being treated rudely by staff when I arrived at 3PM on a Friday in March hoping to buy soil enhancer, only to be told by the female closing the office door that they were closed. Odd their posted signs all said they were open. They dont seem to need customers from the U.S. Just our donations.

This is an amazing place to tour!

ECHO global farm is extremely innovative. The tour was very informative. They are helping farmers around the world to feed their families and communities. The tour was very family friendly, but involves a lot of walking. Make sure to bring water.

Nice place. Found a natural garlic bug spray for mosquitoes

Echo has been instrumental in the development of Buckets of Rain, which today produces 100k servings of vegetables for the homeless in Detroit every season. Dr. Price, Dr Fountain... the Doerrs, Richard Chapin, all were inspirational in our early years God Bless you for your service.

Great tour, growing things to feed the hungry worldwide

Ive seen this place in action. Definitely worth checking out and hopefully donating. These folks are helping third world farmers learn how to grow food that can sustain families in different climates around the world. Really amazing work.

My husband and I had been wanting to visit ECHO in Fort Meyers for quite some time, but havent had a day off together to go. We FINALLY had a free day on his birthday, but when we arrived there was a sign on the gate saying Closed Today For A Special Event. There was no mention of it on the website. After traveling 100 miles to get there, we were heartbroken. Need better website management.

I’ve been here it’s a nice place and has very nice people here .So if your in the area you need to go check it out .

This was my first time to volunteer at E.C.H.O. Global Farm. I was very impressed with their love for God and compassion for people. I highly recommend others to experience the blessing of volunteering at E.C.H.O.

I loved going on the tour here! It was so fun to see all the different things that they have done in order to help people. I bought a few plants afterwords to take them home

On two occasions these folks appeared to be self centered and preoccupied... Nice concept but not really up to speed with the needs of the globe, our planet... Volunteers clearly need some client/service skill sets... Still, right on type of remedial environmental effort--keep strong!

The people are very nice and informative. It gets better when you volunteer

Really love this place. I do wish they would add posting an up to date list of available plants to someones job description though!

Fantastic edible plants at great prices

Took the tour here for the first time and first visit, guide was nice and informative and kept it entertaining. Even answered all our annoying newbie questions. Nursery is one of a kind 5++ star amazing. The only reason is a 4 star instead of 5 is the website and online information is real garbage and very difficult to navigate. In our age where we rely on the internet so often. Would love to see a online list of what is available in the nursery even at a basic level because they shift from completely sold out for 6 months to we have too many of these they are on sale and they only way a customer knows is by constantly calling the front desk to check inventory every two weeks or so. For instance today they have a fall sale, everything 10% off and up... No mention whatsoever anywhere but in person. The only reason i know is because i call consistently to ask for specific plants before i drive 3 hours there and back. Dont get me wrong its worth the drive but they could save us both a lot of hassle with decent online presence. Actually the way i found Echo was via someone elses YouTube video who lives In logs Angeles, Google searches didnt clearly define that echo was a nursery at all and obviously the website wasnt clear. My first call to them before my first vist started literally by asking what do you do here, what exactly are you. Anyway thats all, a little constructive criticism maybe but still a amazing place and company.

The Garden of Eden is echoed in this oasis of Shalom-peace and purpose.Echo exists to inspire and equip development workers like us here at Tree of Life Organics so the miracle trees like moringa (aka the “Tree of Life”) and chaya/spinach tree plus a host of green manure plants (plants that fix nitrogen for sustainable rich soils) can be cultivated in places where they can make mean the difference between life or starvation.The amazing gardens and incredibly innovative “appropriate technology“ workshops are the visible evidence of the real essence of Echo, which are God– Inspired ideas and technologies that really work. Echo is all about hands-on, effective, lasting education and developing heart/mind/hands so that development workers are truly equipped to innovate and get results with sustainable agriculture. The result? Lasting and growing solutions for all kinds of social problems related to hunger and poverty!Go to ECHO! You will leave forever changed, and ready to be an agent for change!!!- Van Hutchinson, Tree of Life Organics

Great little nursery! Loved the variety of fruit trees and awesome prices. Well worth the drive.

Awesome location to visit if you enjoy animals, plants, and farming. They promote sustainable agriculture practices. Guided tours and large events occur regularly.

Exedllecent..great keep going. Thank you so much!There is so much education going on there it is just wonderful it is very much worth your while to go see this place

So many amazing plants, good for food and some beautiful flowers, too.

Very nice fruit trees and the workers are very helpful in answering questions i hear several negative comments before traveling no matter how far i always call in advance to make sure you are open . thats good advise for anyone whom plans on traveling far away for a visit CALL FIRST, i have only had good experiences here and plan on coming back for more fruit trees soon

Excellent organization. The facility tour was fantastic. Why variety of agricultural experiment Tatian stations were exhibited. Great knowledge of the staff.

Five of us drove down from St Pete. What an awesome day!! The tour was interresting and informative, a really cool educational experience. The fun part was shopping for interresting plants and trees. Which are all healthy and strong. I purchased a Jackfruit, black sapote, and passion plum vine. Another possitive is supporting a good cause. Thank you Echo for all you do. Deffinately will go back!!🙏

The staff is very knowledgeable the fruit the trees the plant what a way of organic gardening! I purchase Moringa from Echo as they are the only place I have found in our area.

Great place to learn about Agriculture from around the world.

The people that work here are so sweet and informative! The prices are great as well!

This place has rare varieties of edible plants and fruit trees that you cant get anywhere else.I highly recommend this place.I just wish they could start learning to grow 100%organically and no pesticides instead of conventional.I still love this place.

Excellent tour. A must for residents and visitors to the area. Staff is very knowledgeable.

A very lovely place! Great tours that are very educational! Lovely staff!

They are amazing here! They help communities in third world countries thrive!

This is THE place to get healthy food plants and support a great cause.

We had a tour of ECHOs Global Farm with the Global Agronomy Section of the American Society of Agronomy. We appreciated the kindness of the staff to host us and show us the awesome work ECHO is doing.

Excellent! They train people to teach life sustaining skills to people in underdeveloped areas of the world.

Saw and learned so much. Loved the methane fueled stove from the manure of the local animals.

Nice range of plants, grab hold of Aaron if you need any queries about the plants.

Unique tour of an excellent organization fighting hunger around the world.

I was frustrated they did not sell bamboo shoots. :( :(

Must see places for anyone who is interested in gardening food plants.

Terrific educational value for kids and adults alike.

Took the tour with friends it was a great tour and very informative

Work in Nicaragua and love the community.

Very helpful staff.

Such a variety of edible plants

I have not been there as of yet but the website was very informative and plan on visiting as soon as possible.

Fantastic place!

Love this place